Final BCS Rankings

The Bowl Championship Series rankings were used for the first time during the 1998 season to determine BCS bowl match-ups. The final rankings were released Dec. 6, 1998. Note that Q-rank refers to Quartile rank and L refers to games lost.

——Polls ——

———— Computer Rankings ————

AP

ESPN

Avg.

Sea. Times

Sagarin

NY Times

Avg.

Sched.

Q-rank

L

Total

1

Tennessee

1

1

1

1

2

2

1.67

20

0.80

0

3.47

2

Florida St.

2

2

2

2

2.25 (3)

1

1.75

4

0.16

1

4.91

3

Kansas St.

4

4

4

4

1

4 (5)

3.00

49

1.96

1

9.96

4

Ohio St.

3

3

3

6.75 (7)

6

3

5.25

28

1.12

1

10.37

5

UCLA

6

5

5.5

3

4

5.25 (6)

4.08

8

0.32

1

10.90

6

Texas A&M

8

9

8.5

6

5

4

5.00

5

0.20

2

15.70

7

Arizona

5

6

5.5

5

9

9

7.67

58

2.32

1

16.49

8

Florida

7

7

7

10

8

11

9.67

32

1.28

2

19.95

9

Wisconsin

9

8

8.5

9

10

10

9.67

61

2.44

1

21.61

10

Tulane

10

10

10

8

14

16.5 (23)

12.83

96

3.84

0

26.67

11

Nebraska

14

16

15

11

7

13.5 (15)

10.50

14

0.56

3

29.06

12

Virginia

13

12

12.5

13

18

17

16.00

43

1.72

2

32.22

13

Arkansas

11

11

11.0

17

12

21.75 (22)

16.92

59

2.36

2

32.28

14

Georgia Tech

12

14

13.0

16

20

12

16.00

44

1.76

2

32.76

15

Syracuse

18

17

17.5

17.25 (24)

16

7

13.42

22

0.88

3

34.80

Explanation Key

Poll Average—The average of the Associated Press media poll and the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll. Others receiving votes are calculated in order received.

Computer Average—The average of The Hester & Anderson/Seattle Times, Jeff Sagarin's rankings and The New York Times rankings. In order to prevent differences in individual formulas, a maximum adjusted deviation of no greater
than 50 percent of the average of the two lowest computer rankings is utilized. That number appears in parenthesis.

Quartile Rank—Rank of schedule strength compared to other Division I-A teams divided by 25. This component is calculated by determining the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponents (66.6 percent) and the cumulative won/loss record of the
team's opponents' opponents (33.3 percent).